i'm a christian medical humanities
student and the reason i chose that was
because i was taught that if i have the
opportunity to help my fellow man i
should you know as a christian should
so
um as a christian how can some
conservative people justify not backing
health care for people
especially like for veterans because
they do a lot for our country and sadly
they end up homeless and don't get the
help they can get from the va so how can
we justify not providing affordable
health care for everybody
it's a great question well first um i
don't know any conservative that doesn't
want health care for veterans so just
challenge you a little bit on that but
let's let's let's take the premise let's
say that i don't want universal health
care right
we don't want universal health care
because it'll actually hurt the very
same people you care about and so let's
talk about the veteran example right so
the va is a disaster it's a mess the va
receives 100 billion dollars a year
there's waiting lines the quality of
care is dreadful and i will say we have
universal health care for veterans and
it is a disaster so the question is how
do we best help people right and so
you or somebody i don't even know if you
believe what you said you're just asking
the question so i don't want to put that
on you but that sort of opinion would
say hey the best way to help people
government assistance government health
care now i believe in a safety net of
course i don't want the safety net to
become a hammock i don't want it to
become a place of comfortability but i
believe the best way to help people when
it comes to health care is number one
where's my friend who's the nutritionist
first of all there you go we eat like
garbage in this country okay gotta fix
the way we eat we have a sick care
system not a health care system that's
number one number two we are run by the
tyranny of the hospitals a private
public partnership of inside out access
of hospitals that have perverse profit
incentives and taking money from the
taxpayers but i will say this you will
not find conservatives
not care
and this is an important thing just
because we don't want something doesn't
mean we don't care it's a very important
thing and so i would just challenge on
one thing which is this
which is
which is that
you might think conservatives are wrong
or maybe people that say that what it is
but don't think they're bad
right don't think like how could you not
want to give health care when in reality
it's like hey we want to have all people
taken care of the best way to take care
of people might be through market
competition might be through choice
through improving the healthcare system
not through a massive bureaucratic you
know kind of social engineering uh
project do you have a quick follow-up
question okay yeah um so i do agree with
you when you say that we shouldn't
enable people
um because i think that you know it is
good to have a safety net but we also
need to grow and improve ourselves with
our own will
um but i have met people and it might
just be like people claiming to be
conservative but not really believing in
the conservative like help your neighbor
values
that like truly don't want to give to
health care because like if i have the
money or this is like their words if i
have the money why am i going to give it
to somebody else
yeah i mean you won't hear me say that
but i will say this let's differentiate
one thing which is government helping
people and people helping people the
other thing the other reason i'm against
a massive government welfare project is
i think it de-incentivizes you from
helping another person that needs help
and we see this in europe americans gave
600 billion dollars away to charity last
year we have the highest rates of
charitable giving in the planet except
one small island country one in the
pacific so we're like number two and the
rates not just the number europe private
charity is almost an unknown idea when i
was in europe i've been there many times
i explained what turning point usa was
and kind of how we raise money and i
also explained how we have charitable
hospitals how people give money
voluntarily red cross salvation army and
i remember a group of germans looking at
me they say what do you mean you give
money to charity you see it's almost an
unknown exercise like no the government
does that it's the exercise of the state
i think that the larger we've made the
government the more we've given people
an excuse not to step up and help people
that truly need help i think we need to
empower more neighbors helping neighbors
thank you so much for your question and
for being here thank you
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